The Animal I Wanted
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| Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | The Animal I Wanted |
| Author(s): | Ladyluck |
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| Genre: | slash fanfiction |
| Fandom: | The X-Files |
| External Links: | The Animal I Wanted (RatB) |
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The Animal I Wanted is a Mulder/Krycek story by Ladyluck.
Recs and Reviews
It's Mulder and Scully's job to hide Krycek. R: I can't say enough how much I LOVE this story. I don't think I've read an X-Files story that has Alex and Mulder's characters down so perfectly. It was just so epic emotionally. Mulder, Alex, and even Scully grew so much throughout the whole story, that it seemed so real, their trials and tribulations and everything. Mulder/Krycek *****+ [1]
This massive novel is without a doubt, hands down, no questions asked, one of the most impressive pieces of fanfiction I've ever read. It is that rare thing, a story of how Mulder and Krycek go from enemies to lovers that is completely credible from start to finish - no glossing over, no white-washing, no rose-coloured glasses; just the truth of who these men are, what they have done to each other and what they want in their hearts. The romance is beautiful, moving, sad, funny, painful, violent, gentle, sexy and, above all, right, and, as if that's not enough, it's wrapped in a skillfully crafted plot safely grounded in the X-Files mytharc and featuring a full cast of the shows important characters.While this is a story about Mulder falling in love with Krycek, it is also, as any great story told from Mulder's perspective should be, a tale of his love for Scully. It's at heart about three people, not two, and each of them is portrayed with affection and insight, with all their flaws and graces, heroic strengths and human frailties. Ladyluck achieves one of the most complex and, I think, accurate depictions in existence of the tangle of emotions that makes up the dynamic between Mulder and the people he can't live without. It's gorgeously done, it's exciting, it's riveting, and you're not going to want to stop reading until you reach the end.
This is fanfiction at its very best. Don't miss out on it.[2]
References
- ^ Slash Recs of ScarletFBL: X-Files Recs. (Accessed 02 April 2015)
- ^ "Rec at crack_van, June 1, 2006". Archived from the original on 2023-09-05.